In some of my projects, I have shown that scientific and esoteric approaches can benefit from each other via a Participatory Epistemology (PE), which is a philosophical model that entertains consciousness and the universe as a conversation about the patterns of complexity and universal regularity. PE's big picture relies on humility and recognition of the explanatory limits of rational consciousness and on the capacity of the mind to layer symbols into a holistic model of tru

This is a letter I wrote to my students of 2020. April 29th, 2020 Dear students: You are nearing the end of your High School education under strange and complicated conditions. It is a sci-fi scenario: illness, self-quarantine, and paranoia. Governmental control. Misinformation. And fear. Cultures and economies shutdown, empty cities, and confusion, finger-pointing, and violence. Threats multiply as the news propagate information that scares the wits out of us. Experts warn o

This project contrasts Gary Lachman's and Richard Tarnas' view on the debate about privileging particular metaphysical paradigms, that is, when a view of the world is jettisoned for another, instead of dialectically recuperating the value of the losing view. The case of scientific realism versus esotericism as a mode of sense-making is considered, and consequences of their categorical divorce articulated. Lachman on the Lost Knowledge of Esotericism and the Dangers of Materi